ISRAEL - As Israel heads to its fifth election in four years, Benjamin Netanyahu has been relentlessly campaigning across the country from the back of a delivery truck outfitted as a mobile campaign stage, imploring voters to come out on election day. Some call it the Bibi-bus, using Mr Netanyahu’s famous nickname.
ITALY - Raising their hands in a fascist salute, thousands of marchers sang in praise of Benito Mussolini to mark 100 years since the beginning of his dictatorship. In chilling scenes, as many as 4,000 fascist sympathisers marched to the despot's crypt in the town of Predappio, northern Italy, yesterday morning. With shouts of 'Duce, Duce, Duce' – Mussolini's honorific – the crowd descended on the dictator's birthplace with fascist flags and black shirts.
PHILIPPINES - Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 47 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried in a huge mudslide laden with rocks, trees and debris, officials said Saturday.
SOUTH KOREA - A video shows a fireman in South Korea trembling as he gives a press briefing about the Halloween stampede that killed over 150 people. Last night 153 people died in a crush in Seoul, with another 82 injured, as huge crowds gathered in the popular nightlife area Itaewon for a Halloween festival.
USA - In the month of October, the Mississippi River has seen record low levels from Illinois to Louisiana. In Baton Rouge, the level is revealing a more than 100-year-old sunken ferry and the underbelly of the USS Kidd. "While this is the time of the year when the river levels are usually low, we typically do not see anything this extreme.”
RUSSIA - The Russian president has predicted greater uncertainty as the era of unipolar Western dominance comes to an end. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes the world stands at the precipice of a tumultuous decade that will bring the most danger and unpredictability in several generations as Western hegemony inevitably draws to a close.
USA - Nearly one in five Americans have skipped meals or did not buy groceries due to surging inflation, including 28 percent of Gen Z and 23 percent of millennials, according to a recent survey. Seventeen percent of respondents said they were receiving food items from a food bank, including 22 percent of millennials, while 17 said they have stopped buying healthier food options. Eighteen percent said they had skipped meals or did not buy groceries.
USA - The UN with the WEF is censoring many scientific discussions, such as the topic of COVID-19, and the UN is in the process of setting up the tools to censor ALL misinformation that the UN deems unhelpful for a “stable, peaceful, harmonious and UNITED world.” Let me repeat: “stable, peaceful, harmonious and UNITED world.” You know, common sense (there’s those two pesky words again) tells me that there has never been a time when all humans all agreed on one thing. That has always been considered healthy — debate, discussion, picking apart opposing ideas, new ways of seeing old things, etc etc.
USA - If you want to get a feel for what is really going on in this country, just walk the streets of our major cities. In fact, you don’t even need to go to the “bad areas” to see the extreme social decay that is eating away at our communities like cancer. There are tent cities, open drug use and rampant crime within two blocks of the White House. Even the best parts of Washington DC are being “fundamentally transformed”, and there is no way to put a positive spin on this.
ITALY - Valerio Alfonso Bruno, an analyst at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right in London, "A large part of the population has never truly come to terms with Fascism," he told AFP. Mussolini's authoritarian, anti-democratic regime celebrated military might and intense nationalism. In Italy, there remains "this cult of the strong personality, the strongman, the autocrat who governs without worrying about democracy".
HAWAII - The Island of Hawaii is on high alert as earthquake swarms continue around the world's largest active volcano, Mauna Loa. Scientists are worried about an eruption but not sure if one is imminent as magma churns underneath, generating dozens of quakes daily, according to AP News.
GERMANY - The power struggle escalates between Washington and Berlin for the dominating position in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and is impacting the dispute over Ukraine’s reconstruction. Whereas the EU Commission had initially claimed leadership in that country’s reconstruction, Washington is now arguing that Brussels lacks the necessary “political and financial heft” to do so. The United States must therefore assume the leadership.
ISRAEL - What is the election on Tuesday about? Why are Israelis going to the polls yet again? Some will say it is about what the past four elections seem to have been focused on: the perennial yes-Netanyahu or no-Netanyahu question. Others will tell you it is about the constant fight between Right and Left, even though the split of the two political camps has for years not been based on the classic fault lines of the past. The proof is that Naftali Bennett, a consistent opponent of a Palestinian state, led a government with Meretz and Labor. When those old issues are no longer important, anything is possible.
UK - Aside from tea-drinking, politeness and emotional repression, British people have two religions. The first is our National Health Service, which is taxpayer-funded, free at the point of delivery and doesn’t work very well. The second is the BBC (which is alarmingly similar). Both institutions evoke inexplicable loyalty and inexplicable affection among Britons in equal measure. Yet when it comes to our national broadcaster, the Jewish community has long found it particularly difficult. Over the past two years, the newspaper I edit, The Jewish Chronicle (the oldest Jewish paper in the world), has exposed numerous instances of apparent bias against Jews and Israel in BBC reporting. Examples of BBC bias against Jews, Israel. Over the years, the Chronicle has repeatedly reported on how the BBC’s Arabic-language output departs from impartiality guidelines, downplaying attacks on Israelis, using Hamas-inspired terminology (calling terrorists “resistance fighters,” for example), showcasing extreme views without challenge and publishing a map in which Israel was erased.
USA - With national elections just days away now here in the United States, this is a good time to review the facts regarding the US two-party system where during national elections the public heads to the polls, or votes via the mail, for either a Democrat or Republican candidate for elected office. The general belief among most who cast votes is that the United States is a “democratic” nation where “public servants” are elected by the people to serve their electorate in Washington DC in the House of Representatives and Senate (Congress), and as the President of the United States. However, this notion that the people of the United States choose their leaders who then determine public policy as a representative of their constituents, is a myth.
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